27 Nov 2023, 14:34 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Space Shuttle was the source of many spaceship design ideas, one of them, the Hammerhead, callled for a fairing to be fitted on the fuel tank
15 Sep 2023, 08:08 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Martin Marietta Spacemaster was a spaceship design proposed and rejected in the 1960s, it's an aternative take on the Shuttle we know and love
9 May 2023, 07:48 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Formerly known as the Shuttle Landing Facility (SLF), the airstrip located on Merritt Island in Florida is now home to the Johnny Bohmer Proving Grounds
24 Apr 2023, 08:25 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA's Shuttle-Derived Heavy Lift Launch Vehicle is alive thanks to computer animation, showing the world another space vehicle that never came to be
18 Mar 2023, 20:25 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It's hard to fathom the ESA venturing on their own to build a human-crewed re-useable space vehicle that didn't involve NASA or their own Space Shuttle
11 Feb 2023, 10:10 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The loss of Columbia ensured that the Space Shuttle program wasn't long for this world. By the early 2010s, the four shuttles that remained were retired.
31 Jan 2023, 21:09 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Even beyond the unimaginable human loss on February 1st, 2003, the effects of the STS-107 mission affected how NASA operates today on a profound level.
5 Jan 2023, 12:23 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Apollo space program had to rely only on one-use hardware, but re-usable spaceships like this here shuttle were on the drawing boards
20 Dec 2022, 09:06 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Defense contractor L3Harris announced it is buying Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings for $4.7 billion in a deal that will give it access to new tech
13 Dec 2022, 12:28 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Nine of the most powerful and fastest rockets ever made go at each other in animated race to the sky of cosmic proportions
14 Nov 2022, 20:40 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / In recent photographs taken from Sierra Space's manufacturing facility, we see just how similar the nearly complete Dream Chaser appears compared to the Shuttle
11 Nov 2022, 06:40 UTC · By: Tim McKenzie / Divers working on a documentary in the Bermuda Triangle discovered a large chuck of the underbelly of what they thought was from Challenger
21 Oct 2022, 23:18 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Thanks to the Sierra Nevada and its Sierra Space sub-division, the era of the reusable space plane is not at an end. If anything, it's only getting started.
4 Oct 2022, 20:20 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / With 5,860 kg (12,930 lb) of mass at launch, CXO was packed to the gills with sensors, solar arrays, and electrical generators.
4 Oct 2022, 01:45 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It goes without saying that the ISS will never be the same when and if the Russians ever do follow through with their intentions to leave.
13 Sep 2022, 13:57 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / An Airstream Executive Air Coach sold at a government auction for $21,061 turns out to be NASA’s Convoy Command Van for the Space Shuttle program
13 Jul 2022, 02:36 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / t must be said, some of the food items on display in this exhibit look especially ghastly. Especially in this dehydrated form
11 Jul 2022, 19:08 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / You can very easily see just how much of the rubber compound was stripped away as the Shuttle made its touchdown at the Kennedy Space Center
23 Apr 2022, 04:16 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Star Clipper was the name of a reusable spaceplane design cooked up in the 1960s over at Lockheed, never came to be made.
19 Feb 2022, 00:00 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / To give you an idea of how exciting it was to work for Grumman in the late 60s and early 70s, their LEM successfully transported humans to the Moon.